Salt to the sea : a novel

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Label

Salt to the sea : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Ruta Sepetys

Creator

• Sepetys, Ruta,
• trueSepetys, Ruta

Author

• Sepetys, Ruta,

Subject

• trueEurope, Civililzation
• true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueMultiple perspectives
• trueNurses
• truePregnant teenagers
• trueRefugees
• Refugees -- Fiction
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueSoldiers -- Germany
• trueWilhelm Gustloff (Ship)
• trueWorld War II
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction

Genre

• trueHistorical fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueMultiple perspectives
• Young adult fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--

Theme

• trueLife during wartime

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueHaunting
• trueSerious

Writing style

• trueLyrical
• trueCompelling

Character

• trueSympathetic
• trueCourageous

Award

• Carnegie Medal, 2017.
• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2018.
• Golden Kite Award for Fiction, 2017
• Goodreads Choice Award, 2016
• Indies' Choice Book Awards, Young Adult, 2017.
• LibraryReads Favorites, 2016
• Notable Books for a Global Society, 2017
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2016
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2017.
• Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona), Teen Book Category, 2018.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for High School, 2018.

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Awards note

• Eliot Rosewater nominee, 2017-2018.
• Young Hoosier Middle Grades Award nominee, Grades 6-8 - 2018-2019.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• HL 560
• HL560L
• Decoding demand: 99 (very high)
• Semantic demand: 100 (very high)
• Syntactic demand: 80 (high)
• Structure demand: 88 (very high)

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

UG

LC call number

PZ7.S47957

LC item number

Sal 2016

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

560

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

Reading level

4.5

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent